Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

About Dr. Ashraf Ramelah

Dr. Ashraf Ramelah is the founder and president of Voice of the Copts, a human rights nonprofit organization 501 (c) (3). The organization has offices in Italy and the United States. Dr. Ramelah is dedicated to the Coptic cause and believes that his life’s mission is to speak up for the oppressed Copts who cannot speak up for themselves. When he is not meeting with political figures and policy makers, Dr. Ramelah spends his time travelling throughout the country giving talks about the Coptic issue and explaining to the West the oppression against the Copts in Egypt. Dr. Ramelah was invited to address the European Parliament (2010) and to be the keynote speaker in the Italian Parliament (2011) on the issue of Coptic persecution in Egypt. He has done various interviews with Italian newspapers and appears frequently in the Italian and Arab Media. Dr. Ramelah is a featured author at Arutz Sheva, American Thinker, Family Security Matters.com, Canada Free Press and others. Dr. Ramelah is well known to the Egyptian government due to his advocacy for the Egyptian Copts as well as for Voice of the Copts’ lawsuit against them on behalf of Muslim convert to Christianity Mr. Hegazy and his family in 2009-2010. Ashraf Ramelah also appears as an entry in the Coptic History Encyclopedia (http://www.coptichistory.org/new_page_5260.htm). Dr. Ramelah, himself a Copt, was born in Cairo, Egypt. At the age of 17, he travelled to Italy to study architecture. He graduated with a doctorate in architecture from La Sapienza – Universita’ Degli Studi di Roma,Italy. His special study is restoration of old monuments and history of architecture. His career as an architect took him to work and live in Italy, Saudi Arabia, Gabon and the USA. His personal interests are Egyptology and Coptic history in the period after the Arab invasion of Egypt in 651 AD. Voice of the Copts is dedicated to bringing fair, correct and balanced information to the entire world regarding Copts and Christians in countries with an Arab-Muslim majority.

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By | 2013-09-22T14:18:46-04:00 September 22nd, 2013|News|

  President Hassan Rowhani said Sunday that Western governments must recognise Iran's right to enrich uranium in any deal to allay their concerns about its nuclear programme.   Rowhani said that should extend to "all rights of the Iranian nation, particularly nuclear rights and the right to enrich uranium on its territory within the framework

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By | 2013-09-22T11:53:17-04:00 September 22nd, 2013|Reports|

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Bangladesh: Senior Islamist Sentenced to Hang

By | 2013-09-22T00:51:27-04:00 September 22nd, 2013|News|

In a controversial ruling that is bound to anger Bangladeshi Islamists, the country's Supreme Court has sentenced a    leading Islamist figure to death by hanging, for crimes he committed during the Bangladesh's struggle for    independence against Pakistan.   65 year-old Abdul Quader Molla is the fourth-highest leader of the Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami party and

Somalia’s al-Shabaab claims responsibility for Nairobi mall attack

By | 2013-09-21T20:43:05-04:00 September 21st, 2013|News|

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Tunisia women ministry to fight ‘sex jihad’ trips to Syria

By | 2013-09-21T20:19:12-04:00 September 21st, 2013|News|

  Tunisia's women's ministry said Saturday it would come up with a plan to counter the growing number of women travelling to Syria to wage so-called "sex jihad" by comforting militants.   "The ministry intends to boost its cooperation with both government and non-government bodies on this issue to come up with appropriate ways to

An Iranian Expatriate’s Message to Obama

By | 2013-09-21T10:50:36-04:00 September 21st, 2013|Op-Eds|

Mr. President, the terrible fix you find yourself in is the predictable result of your own making. You showed vacillation and weakness at every turn. And the thugs are watching.   The civilized world witnessed in revulsion the graphic images, which emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of

Tunisian girls return home pregnant after ‘sexual jihad’ in Syria

By | 2013-09-21T10:32:50-04:00 September 21st, 2013|Islam|

  A number of Tunisian girls who had travelled to Syria to perform “sexual jihad” there have returned back home pregnant, Tunisian Interior Minister Lotfi Bin Jeddo said on Thursday.   The Tunisian girls “are (sexually) swapped between 20, 30, and 100 rebels and they come back bearing the fruit of sexual contacts in the

The Syrian Free Army is Signing Its Own Death Warrant

By | 2013-09-20T19:26:42-04:00 September 20th, 2013|Op-Eds|

The Syrian Free Army is acting predictably - albeit suicidally - if one remembers who they really are. As far as Israel is concerned, both sides in the Syrian conflict are a disaster.    The swift agreement between Russia and America to collect and destroy Syria's chemical weapons has been an impressive diplomatic achievement -